Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

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ID23538249
AuthorsVictoria Saker Woeste
Year2012
Pages424
Publication date2012-06-27
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHenry Ford's war on Jews and the legal battle against hate speech (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804772341.001.0001
OpenAlexW638041065
Open LibraryOL25162896M
ISBN9780804772341
LanguageEN
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Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur—the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of anti-Semitic propaganda. This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent, his involvement in the defamatory articles it ran, and the two Jewish lawyers, Aaron Sapiro and Louis Marshall, who each tried to stop Ford's war on Jews. In 1927, the case of Sapiro v. Ford transfixed the nation. In order to end the embarrassing litigation, Ford apologized for the one thing he would never have lost on in court: the offense of hate speech. Using never-before-discovered evidence from archives and private family collections, this study reveals the depth of Ford's involvement in every aspect of this case and explains why Jewish civil rights lawyers and religious leaders were deeply divided over how to handle Ford.

Antisemitism · Art · Art history · Battle · Civil rights · Judaism · Order (exchange) · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · 20th century · Aaron Sapiro · Anti-Jewish propaganda · Dearborn independent · Detroit · Hate speech · henry Ford (1863-1947) · Michigan · Trials (libel) · Trials, litigation · united states

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